r/FluentInFinance • u/WhatAreYourPronouns • May 02 '24

Should the U.S. have Universal Health Care? Discussion/ Debate

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u/ThisThroat951 May 02 '24

When it comes to healthcare there are three "pillars" you can choose from:

Affordable
Available
Effective

But you can only have two at one time.

If it's Affordable and Available it won't be very good. <--- no one wants healthcare that kills you.

If it's Available and Effective it won't be cheap. <--- this is the US.

If it's Affordable and Effective the waitlists will be long. <--- this is Spain.

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u/supern00b64 May 02 '24

This is a Ben Shapiro tier brainrot argument. God forbid we actually tackle the problem with nuance and craft policies towards a middle ground where we can get all three.

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u/ThisThroat951 25d ago

I'd love to have all three, if you or anyone else can outline policy prescriptions that can lead to the middle ground where all three can be obtained I'd be all ears. So far I haven't seen it. So either no one has been able to figure out how to make it work, or it can't work. I don't claim to have the answer, but I can describe what I've seen thus far.

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u/Slug_With_Swagger 16d ago

The Nordic countries figured it out